[PATCH 01/42] crypto: sun4i-ss - Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Fri Oct 20 00:55:23 PDT 2023


The .remove() callback for a platform driver returns an int which makes
many driver authors wrongly assume it's possible to do error handling by
returning an error code. However the value returned is ignored (apart
from emitting a warning) and this typically results in resource leaks.

To improve here there is a quest to make the remove callback return
void. In the first step of this quest all drivers are converted to
.remove_new(), which already returns void. Eventually after all drivers
are converted, .remove_new() will be renamed to .remove().

Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove
callback to the void returning variant.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
---
 drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun4i-ss/sun4i-ss-core.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun4i-ss/sun4i-ss-core.c b/drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun4i-ss/sun4i-ss-core.c
index 3bcfcfc37084..ba80878e2df5 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun4i-ss/sun4i-ss-core.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun4i-ss/sun4i-ss-core.c
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ static int sun4i_ss_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	return err;
 }
 
-static int sun4i_ss_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static void sun4i_ss_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	int i;
 	struct sun4i_ss_ctx *ss = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
@@ -529,7 +529,6 @@ static int sun4i_ss_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	}
 
 	sun4i_ss_pm_exit(ss);
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static const struct of_device_id a20ss_crypto_of_match_table[] = {
@@ -545,7 +544,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, a20ss_crypto_of_match_table);
 
 static struct platform_driver sun4i_ss_driver = {
 	.probe          = sun4i_ss_probe,
-	.remove         = sun4i_ss_remove,
+	.remove_new     = sun4i_ss_remove,
 	.driver         = {
 		.name           = "sun4i-ss",
 		.pm		= &sun4i_ss_pm_ops,
-- 
2.42.0




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